The quiet mouldings of the latter are much finer and more in character with the walls.

The lids are of a white sugary marble, the mouldings coarse and semicircular in section, and the volutes and circular endings of the lids are of a perfectly stupid design.

These lids cannot have been seen by Michael Angelo; and, therefore, he cannot have seen the figures in their places upon them.

The sarcophagus under the Day and Night has been copied from the one seen by Michael Angelo: its mouldings are still beautiful, but heavier, more deeply cut, and of less subtle line in the section.

The difference is perceptible to the eye and evident with the aid of a good foot-rule.